Arian Foster - AFC Offensive Player of the Month for October

dickerson? no, he's more like walter payton, he can do it all

 

Marcus Allen?

 

50% marcus allen
2% barry sanders
8% ladanian tomlinson
30% eric dickerson
7% walter peyton
3% emmitt smith

...there you go, the final breakdown of who Arian Foster really is.

 

Instead of just randomly naming historical great RBs, why not just make the most obvious comparison?

Spoiler

 

Well Jim Brown is the greatest ever and since Arian doesn't have any of that in him he's just average. I mean you can with him, just like the Patriots won a superbowl with Antowain Smith. But I have higher standards for my running backs.

 

...and 100% reason to remember the name.

 

I think people are not content to compare him to Terell Davis because the average Texans fan thinks Foster is better than Davis. I don't know, at this point in his career, whether he is or not, but at this point in his career, he has put up better stats than Davis had(Davis' monster 2,000 yard season was I think his fourth season in the league).

Foster is definitely a better receiver than Davis was.

 

Regardless of how great Foster has been or continues to be, crtics will always associate him with the zone-block scheme... Thats unfortunate but slightly fair

 

Steve Slayton, Chris Brown, Ron Dayne, and Ahmed Green are all backs who's stellar stints with the Texans will be tarnished by the zone-blocking scheme as well.

 

And Marcus Allen put up more than 1000 yards just 3 times in his career. Yet somehow a better comparison?

Because he caught more yards? Foster has Schaub the short-to-medium range passer with only one WR. Davis had Elway the bomb-thrower with Rod Smith, Ed McCaffery, and Shannon Sharpe. Davis could catch the football well. IIRC He stayed on the field in Denver's 5 wideout formations. But put Foster in that offense with Elway and there's no way he ever gets 60 catches.

Getting defensive much? Terrell Davis was a great cut-back runner. Arian Foster is a great cut-back runner. They both find the holes in the ZBS as well as any to ever play the game.

The ZBS describes the type of runner Foster is. If it holds a negative connotation to you, then you probably feel like it's cheating or something to use this system. But really, which NFL team don't use some sort of system for their run blocking? Or do you feel that regular teams just have their linemen push forward absentmindedly on their runs?

 

I never looked at his stats, sorry, but just thought about the way they played. Marcus did more multiple-cutting & reversing fields early in his career when he was young and spry, but when he squared his shoulders up or was receiving out of the backfield he reminded me of Foster, style-wise.

 

RBs have a life span of like 2 years in this league until they start falling apart (at least nowadays). I have no reason to expect more then that from Foster.

 

I know you were probably being sarcastic, but I just went through the teams, and without looking at anything, I came up with 21 backs (trying to pick out each team's starter, with the exception of Reggie Bush and Tomlinson), using one from each team, that have been in the league longer than 2 years. You could say five years, but I'd venture to say you'd still have the majority of teams...

 

reread the post. 'until they start falling apart'. Jamal Lewis, Shaun Alexander, LaDainian Tomlinson, Larry Johnson, Priest Holmes, Clinton Portis, Jamal Anderson, Chris Johnson (premature?), I could go on and on .... they always fall apart after about 1-2 years of being elite. RBs get banged on too much in football which leads them to having the shortest life span of any position in pro sports. Thats why smart organizations never pay them much and also don't draft running backs in the first round.

 

Didn't mean to sound like I was attacking your comparison. I can certainly see it, especially in how they can act like receivers out of the backfield. I was more responding to EddieWasSnubbed's notion that Davis was overlooked because he was "inferior" to the other backs compared. When in fact before his injury, Davis was the best running back of his era. I just didn't understand why people would think it's demeaning to compare Foster to a 2-time SB winner, 2000 yard rusher, and 2-time rushing champion.

 

3.9 YPC

Don't get too excited about the dump off passes that extend his yards because of the system he plays in, he can thank Kubiak!

 

I wasn't trying to demean the comparison by any means. I was just trying to say that, when it comes to any given position, a group of five to ten names will come up, and people don't like to compare outside of those names for some reason. I like the Davis comparison, although, I'll still maintain Foster is the better receiver. I believe he has a far better ypc, too.

 

well deserved...Congrats Arian!